Pressure Mounts For U.S. Ground Troops In Iraq

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON – U.S. lawmakers have already begun pressing President Barack Obama to deploy U.S. troops in Iraq to lead the ground attack against the Islamic State terror army.

Many lawmakers claim Obama has underestimated the militant group’s threat and power, which appear to be expanding daily.

The CIA has raised its estimate of the size of Islamic State forces to 20,000 to 31,500, from about 10,000. The substantial range in numbers indicates the paucity of U.S. intelligence on the group (also known as ISIL or Islamic State of Syria and the Levant), lawmakers say.

They also note that Obama rejected advice from his own military advisers who recommended he send a “modest” contingent of Special Operations Forces to Iraq for front-line ground support.

“The President wants to use a light footprint now in hopes that he doesn’t need a heavy footprint later,” Rep. Buck McKeon, chairman of the arms services committee, said in a speech Thursday to the conservative think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute. “This approach was not terribly successful in Libya, which has fallen into chaos. I want our coalition to go all-in now, so that we do not risk having to use enormously more blood and treasure later.”

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[Cayenne]

1. If we don't the Russians and Iranians will step in instead.

[morningfog]

3. Let them have it.

[roamer65]

9. The Iranians and the Saudis will either have a war or talk.

Let it happen. We need to sit this one out.

[KamaAina]

2. Libya?

Isn't that where Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi! is?

[jaysunb]

4. McKeon has six children. How many will volunteer ? n/t

[CJCRANE]

5. If that happens the circle will be complete

and the War On Terror Reboot considered a success.

[Fearless]

6. No it doesn't. They're lying to you.

Show me one average American that wants this?? There is no call for war. There's a call for economic equality... They are only trying to distract you so that they can run off with more of your money.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Cannon-Fodder in another useless, and unwinnable, war.